"The jobs are similar yes. And it has its exciting moments. But there are plenty of boring ones too. Not to mention the Aurors themselves. I work with the field agents, who are all cocky as hell."

Plum snorted. "You've obviously not met my boss. The man has such a large ego that I'm still surprised he can fit that fat head through his office door. I'm sure he'd put any Auror to shame."

Yes, Plum was a big fan of Joshua Cloud.

"Yeah, ummm, I guess... Do you want to ummm... go... that is... we could go over there and ummm... talk to everyone else."

"No, not really," she said with a sigh. "There's no one that I'm too particularly keen on finding and talking to. At least not anyone else." Benjy seemed agreeable enough, though. And at least he wasn't being pushy, or falling over himself trying to impress her. Because that got rather annoying after a while.

"So how long have you worked for the Ministry?" she asked, finding that career-talk was simple and uninvasive. "And what do you like about it?"